Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (108 mails)

[Andrew RAY <aray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes

I'm guessing you are logged in to X as a common user, and then using an X
terminal to start OO, having, presumably first su'd to root.  The root
user has no permissions to access your X server.  To overcome this, try
restarting OO from within the X-term  with something like:

ssh -X root@localhost /path/to/the/executable/you/were/trying/to/run

You will then be asked to provide the password (which should be the root
user's password) and everything should start up fine.

Andrew

> Hi list.
> Im installing OOoRC4. Well updating it from Beta2 actually. So I
> updated the installtion on the server. Which worked fine. So then I go
> to update OOo folder in my home directory. But it tells me that it
> cant update the network version, and I have to run it from command
> line with -net. So I do. But then it tells me I have to run it as
> root, or it wont work properly. When I try to run it as root it wont
> work. I get this error.
>
> glibc version: 2.3.2
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> ./setup: cannot connect to X server :0
>
> Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Any comments welcome. Cheers
>
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> Andrew Nix
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